Apollo 11 landed on the moon 46 years ago - Album on Imgur



July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind | NASA

Eugene Cernan

OP Delivers: Interview with the last man on the Moon! - Album on Imgur

icfire's son is a drug addict 2 cope w the pain of having a drug addict child molester father

It's a damn shame you all can't control yourselves.

moving on

leave this forum, *******

after all of you

Take it somewhere else please

Why SpaceX rocket exploded - Business Insider

a stupid little 2 foot strut failed at 20% it's spec G force (2g when its rated for 10g)
this allowed a helium bottle to break lose and smash into some stuff blowing everything up

One of these improvements is already being put into place: Surprisingly, the Dragon 1 spacecraft carrying the payload could have been saved, Musk said, if it had been programmed with software that the company has already programmed into their Dragon 2 spacecraft, which is planned to launch astronauts into space by 2017, and was flown in a test earlier this year.

This software acts like an eject button, so if something goes wrong, the spacecraft and its precious payload don't go up in flames with the rest of the rocket.

"If the software had initiated the parachute deployment then the Dragon spacecraft would have survived," Musk said. And for all future missions the Dragon 1 spacecraft will be programmed with this handy software so that it can try and save itself from disaster.

What's more, Musk announced that SpaceX will personally be testing each strut before it flies. Before this, the company had trusted that the manufacturer ***8212; which Musk won't name ***8212; was providing sturdy struts.

But after testing thousands of yet-to-be-flown struts after the explosion on June 28, SpaceX discovered that several failed below their expected tolerances. None of these struts will ever fly

The first Falcon 9 failure has come with its share of setbacks. Musk said that SpaceX will not be flying anymore Falcon 9s until September at the earliest.

Despite the setback, Musk said that this will not jeopardize SpaceX's plan to send astronauts into space in their next-generation Dragon 2 spacecraft in 2017.

Depending on suppliers is part of the game, sucks when your supplier drops the ball

Buckyballs have been an item of discussion here before.

Buckyballs Solve Interstellar Mystery

Soccer-ball-shaped molecules lurking in the dusty corners of the Milky Way help resolve a long-standing conundrum.

The term “diffuse interstellar bands” may not run chills down your back, but it’s code for a spectral mystery has haunted astronomers for almost a century. First discovered in 1922, these absorption lines (more than 400 of them) are seen anytime astronomers look toward dust-reddened stars. But no ions or molecules tested in the lab have provided a good match. Sometimes the bands even appear where there’s very little dust.

Now new research published in the July 16 Nature has finally confirmed that buckyballs — officially known as buckminsterfullerene, a molecule that links 60 carbon atoms into a soccer-ball-shaped cage — are responsible for two of these mysterious absorption bands.

Buckyballs lie on the periphery of our ordinary experience, showing up in small amounts among soot particles and easily created in the lab. (In fact, some chemists are building so-called buckybombs, nanoscale explosives designed to attack cancer cells.) The molecule’s extremely stable lattice shape withstands high temperatures and pressures.

Originally Posted by Goshin

Take it somewhere else please

i do what i want, *****

What do you guys think about The Martian??

This would be interesting.

Nasa's planet hunting Kepler Space Telescope set to make announcement | Daily Mail Online

In its announcement for the press conference, Nasa suggested it could be about to reveal the discovery of 'another Earth'. It said: 'The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995.

'Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago.

'Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years - another Earth.'

Nasa may have found the most Earth-like planet to date (Wired UK)

Neil DeGrasse Tyson twitter feed:

"The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory for an extremely large telescope, which was intended to have a mirror of 100 meters in diameter. A telescope of approximately this size would be able to spectroscopically analyse Earth-size planets around the forty nearest sun-like stars, allowing researchers look for signs of life such as free diatomic oxygen in their atmospheres.

Because of the complexity and cost of building a telescope of this unprecedented size, ESO instead has elected to focus on the 39-meter diameter European Extremely Large Telescope which began construction in the Chilean Atacama Desert in December 2014 and is scheduled to begin operation in 2024.

The Fermi Paradox: We're pretty much screwed... - Album on Imgur

When confronted with the topic of stars and galaxies, a question that tantalizes most humans is, “Is there other intelligent life out there?” Let’s put some numbers to it—

As many stars as there are in our galaxy (100 – 400 billion), there are roughly an equal number of galaxies in the observable universe—so for every star in the colossal Milky Way, there’s a whole galaxy out there. All together, that comes out to the typically quoted range of between 1022 and 1024 total stars, which means that for every grain of sand on every beach on Earth, there are 10,000 stars out there.

The science world isn’t in total agreement about what percentage of those stars are “sun-like” (similar in size, temperature, and luminosity)—opinions typically range from 5% to 20%. Going with the most conservative side of that (5%), and the lower end for the number of total stars (1022), gives us 500 quintillion, or 500 billion billion sun-like stars.

There’s also a debate over what percentage of those sun-like stars might be orbited by an Earth-like planet (one with similar temperature conditions that could have liquid water and potentially support life similar to that on Earth). Some say it’s as high as 50%, but let’s go with the more conservative 22% that came out of a recent PNAS study. That suggests that there’s a potentially-habitable Earth-like planet orbiting at least 1% of the total stars in the universe—a total of 100 billion billion Earth-like planets.

Please stop

It's a good piece.

It's long and you are terrible at quoting relevant information